Optimising wells one at a time rarely gives the best result for a field. Increasing rate on one well can raise back-pressure on its neighbours, push water handling over its limit or take lift gas from wells that would use it better. The field optimum is found only when the reservoir, wells and facilities are looked at together.

Integrated production models make this possible. They are used to forecast field production under realistic constraints, test development options such as new wells, compression or debottlenecking, and optimise day-to-day operation through lift gas allocation, choke settings and routing. For many assets they are the main tool linking reservoir management, production operations and facilities planning.

Integrated models are also easy to get wrong. Inconsistent PVT between reservoir and network models, poorly matched well models, missing facility constraints and models that are built once and never updated are common. The result is forecasts that cannot be met and optimisation advice that does not hold in the field. This course focuses on building integrated models that are consistent, calibrated and maintained.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Explain the purpose, structure and main applications of integrated production models.
• Select a suitable reservoir representation, from material balance to coupled simulation, for a given study.
• Build and calibrate well models for use within an integrated model.
• Model surface networks, including pipelines, manifolds, chokes and compressors.
• Represent facility constraints such as separation, water handling and compression capacity.
• Maintain PVT consistency across reservoir, well and network models.
• History-match an integrated model to field data.
• Optimise field production through lift gas allocation, choke settings and routing.
• Use integrated models to forecast production and evaluate development scenarios.

Organisations sending participants to this training will:

• Get field-level production forecasts that respect real facility constraints.
• Improve day-to-day production through system-wide optimisation of lift gas, chokes and routing.
• Evaluate development and debottlenecking options with better information.
• Improve alignment between reservoir, production and facilities teams.
• Put consistent integrated modelling standards and governance in place.

Participants will:

• Understand how reservoir, wells and facilities interact as one production system.
• Be able to build and calibrate each part of an integrated model.
• Be able to run network optimisation and interpret the results.
• Be able to use integrated models for forecasting and scenario studies.
• Be able to judge the credibility of integrated model results.

• Production engineers
• Reservoir engineers
• Production optimisation engineers
• Facilities and process engineers
• Integrated asset modelling specialists
• Asset development and planning engineers
• Engineers moving into integrated asset team roles

Upon successful completion of this training course, delegates will be awarded an official Certificate of Completion issued by the Petroleum Engineers Association (PEA), an ISO 9001:2015 certified training organization. The certificate carries 10 Credits and formally records the total learning hours completed.

Each certificate is signed by the Course Facilitator and the CEO of the Petroleum Engineers Association, and serves as verifiable proof of professional training that delegates can present to employers and professional bodies worldwide.